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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-29
6 A G r a nj z ~ TO.

A. For Morning. P. For Afternoon.
Sundays excepted. Sundays only.
Mondays excepted.
Freight and Accommodation Trains.
A. N. T0WNE, General Manager.
T. A. GOODMAN, Gen'l Pass. and Ticket Agent
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-29
FIRST BREAK OF THE SEASON
Shoes, Hats, Furnishing Goods

And those who want to keep pace with Us viii
have to do sSp1e tall hustling. NOW IS YOUR
CHANCE. All out stock u CLOTBI SGs
SHOES, HATS and FURNISHING GOODS
cut down SO low rs to beat everybodys prIce.
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Surviving War Governors.

At the Grand Army encampment at
st. Louis in September, it is proposed
to hold a reunion of the surviving war
governors of the states which did not
secede. War governors, are those who
held Office at any time from April, 1861,
to April 1865, in states classed as
loyal" Few war governors are now
living. a partial list contains the
names of J. G.. DOwley, California :;
Leland Stamford, California; F. F.
Low, California; Samuel j. KirkwOod,
Iowa; William NJ Stone, Iowa; Rich
ard J. Oglesby, Illinois; Charles Robin
son, Kansas; Thomas Carney, Kansas :;
Samuel J. Crawford, Kansas Alexan-
dria Ramsey, Minnesota; Austin Blair,
Michigan; Henry H. Grape, Michigan :;
Augustus w. Bradford, Maryland !;
Alvin Sanders, Nebraska; Nathaniel
S. Berry, New Hampshire; Joel Parker,
New Jersey Andrew ]. Curtin, Penn
Slvania; William Sprague, Rhode
Island Edward Solomon, Wisconsin !;
j, Y. Smith, Rhode Island; J. T.
Lewis, Wisconsin.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-26

Thursday, May rs. 1887,
HENRY LIFTS, Editor.

The cws that Mr.. O'Brien did not
escape unt1rt from the stoning at
Toronto, but was injured by the mis-
skies of the mob, incites intense indig-
nation against the violent partisans of
Lord Lansdowne, and adds another 10
the score of outrages to the account of
Orahgemen in Canada. The authori-
ties of Toronto have shown themselves
uHcommonly inefficient and pusillani-
nous. The cause of justice to Ireland
will gain by the episode. Lord Lans-
dowle has lost his chance to enroll his
name among the great. He will stand
in history as timid tyrant, even if he
be not guilty of the mean crime of in
citing coWardly violence against manly
adversary. The contrast between the
reception of Mr.. O'Brien at Toronto
and that of the Tory agitatOr Kane
makes a sharp commentary on the in
consistent and brutal conduct of those
who pretend to be the special champions
of a government of free discussion
N, Y. Star.
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Pension News.

1t is little remarkable that the
republican papers have contained no
mention of the interesting article from
Washington, recently appearing in the
New York Herald, in which the Pension
Bureau under General Black, the eff
cient commissioner, is very fully set
out.
1.-The Republican papers profess to
be the special friends of the soldier.
Their party, they say, has the interests
of the veterans at heart, while the
Democratic party Hes awake nights
deviSing schemes to circumvent them.
If this be true it becomes the Republi-
can newspapers to give the fullest and
latest news at all times with reference
10 the administration or execution of
the pension Legislation of the govern
ment. They should by all means pub
fish the facts of this Herald letter.
They show that under General Black
there is twice as much work done in
deciding pension applications as under
his predecessor, though there are
now more than one hundfed less clerks
and the cost to the government is
many thousands of dollars year less.
They show that there is no favoritism.
Each case is taken up in its turn and,
though carefully examined, speedily
disposed of on its merits. 1t is not
necessary to have a lawyer or a claim
agent to work up the case. The hum
bleSt and most illiterate claimant gets
nffoYo+in,,
congress or a cabinet minister. No
claimant is overlooked. Every case is
taken up. And for the first time in
the history of the Department every
pending case is undergoing examina-
Bon and rapidly approaching decision.
Isn't it odd that Republican newspa-
perS refuse to give their readers news
Of this kind?"
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Solomon News and Notes.

The Presbyterian church held an
ice cream and strawberry festival We'd
nesday evening. There was a large
attendance and the net proceeds were
about $50.
Rev. C. w. Caseley returned from
Chicago Friday morning. While absent
he visited the church which gave him
liscense as an exhorter. He expressed
himself as much pleased with his trip.
Mr.. Spratt has had new well dug
'on his property. He is going to put up
a windmill.
Mrs. Henry Whitley is improving i'll
health.
Board of Trade have frequent meet
ings of late.
Mr.. Elmer Lewis has been absent
several days.
Preparations are being made by the
churches for Children's Day, in June.
The closing exercises of the High
School are to take place two weeks
from next Wednesday, June Sth.
Reports out this morning are that we
are to have the Rock Island and the
Santa Fe. Let them come.
Mr.. Hopkins is plastering Mr.. Fields
house.
Prof. Cook and wife were at Abilene
last evening to hear Senator ingalls,.
Rev. J. R. Cooper was at Abilene one
day last week.
MIR. James Rulings, of Willowdale,
returned from a trip to Sumner county
YESTERDAY.
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"Harkl the voice of Jesus crying,
Who will 20 and work tO-day?''
This was simply the hit of the day.

This was simply the hit of the day.
The convention, after deciding
where they would hold their next con-
vention, adjourned until So'clock p. m.
The evening exercises were opened
with singing, followed by prayer by
the Rev. Mr.. Hutton.
"The Sabbath School Worker and
His Equipments" was opened by Wal
lace I. Early. and discussed by the
audience.
Importance of Bible Study" was
well opened by Mr.. g. f. Chase. and
discussed by the audience.
''The Reward of Faithful Labor. -
by Mr.. J. NJ. Keifer, was discussed.
thereby concluding the program for
the day.
During the day the congregation
filled the house, but diminished some
what in the evening. Although the
association has not yet celebrated the
first anniversary of its organization. it
now numbers "a members. and expects
to have double the number yet.
We had a splendid day for the oc-
casion; everyone seemed interested in
the cause of Christ, and, we hope. went
home feeling better for having been
there.
The convention was dismissed. to
meet at the Funkhouser school house
in October, 1887. Exercises closed
with the benediction by Rev. Hutton.
w. II. KEIFER, Pres.
w. I. EARLY, Sec'y.
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Too Many Mine Workers.

1t is far easier to decide the pres
ence of too many mine workers in the
coal region an evil, than to point out a
remedy for 1t. That it is an evil no
body cOgniZapt of the facts will deny.
Some say that fully so per cent. of our
entire force is surplus. The Philadel-
phla Times, in recent article. said
there were at least % per cent. more
in the region than there is employment
for. An official of one of our leading
coal corporations remarked to a gem
tleman yesterday, that there are
twice too many miners"
How are we to get rid of them? How
are we to prevent such a further and
consistent increase of the number as
will continue the surplus at just about
what it is to-day? These are the Seri-
Gus problems to be solved.-W Wilkes
Barre Pa Leader:
The above, taken from one of the
leading journals in the heart of the
anthracite coal region, explains the stu
alton not only of that particular locality,
but the same state of affairs exists in
every mining and manufacturing point
in the East. Manufacturers demand a
high tariff to protect the laboring man,
as they claim. VIII some one please
explain how Il high tariff will give en-
plOyment TO those idle men, and also
explain in what way the laborer can
demand the wages ne ought to get,
when there is such surplus of labor in
every locality, that the employer can
name the wages? Pauper labor is
shipped from Europe by the steamer
load. This last statement may seem
like an old chestnut, but is wormy
chestnut devoid of meat to the man
who owns his little home in the East,
and is forced out of employment by
imported pauper labor.
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Willowdale Township Sabbath School
Convention.

The township association met in
convention, May 10, 1887, at the Chase
school house. Opened at II a. m. by
devotional exercises, led by W. ii.
Keifer.
The convention devoted half an
hour to hearing reports from different
persons, as to ''How goes the work in
your SCHOOL," Five different schools
were reported.
An essay by Mrs. Lucy J. Rulings
was hard to beat. The subject was,
GLOW can we assist each other in Sab
bath School Work. and brought out
considerable comment from the audi
ence.
After hearing the above noted essay
and tho remarks thereon, the cOnven-
ton adjourned for dinner, until 2
o'clock. Dinner was served at the
school house, by the ladies of the con-
vention, in excellent style, for which
they are noted throughout the north
west part of the county.
The afternoon session was opened
with song, followed by prayer by
Rev. Merriam.
a class OF half-doZcn young ladies
being selected from the audience, they
were led, in the study of the lesson for
May %, 1887, by Rev. F. S. Altman.
"What Are the Most Vital Needs of
a Sabbath School" having been very
ably discussed in an essay by the Hon.
J. II. Engle, at the last county conven-
ton, the Rev. \. Glendenning, who
was assigned that subject by the COM
mittee on program, thought it more
profitable to the convention to speak
ON The Dangers Connected with Sab
bath School, which he did las he al
ways does in very excellent way.
This brought forth comments on the
topic from a dozen persons in the au-
1ience.
An essay by Mrs. n. r. Laney,
who Should Attend the Sabbath
School, ended in reciting the poem
that begins:
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dali large dividends on his stock in
manufacturing.
In recent excursion from Washing
ton to Alexandria and Mt. Vernon,
composed of politicians and officials,
speech-making was a feature OF the
programme, and of course Mr.. Randall
was not omitted. At Alexandra there
was banquet, or lunch, and 1t was
there that Mr.. Randall made his speech.
He said, 81 am anxious to help the
South, but if her own leaders Il mean
many of them} don't see the crisis by
turning in with the current, and keep
Ing in the line of friendship, there will
be a suddenness of overwhelmingness
of reckoning as has never been seen
here or elsewhere. This is not as
clear as crystal, to be sure, but its mean
ing is clear enough in the light OF his
further remarks, "that almost every
state south of the Potomac is drifting
away from high tariff principles. +"
Now we would like to know something
of the awful calamity that the great
Pennsylvania ''bulldozer," intends to
bring on people that are asking for
lower taxes on necessaries of life.
High tariff is drawing from the pockets
of the consuming class millions of dol
lars to be boarded up in the treasury OF
the United States, for which the Gov
eminent has no use. Sam Randall, has
greed taken away your senses? Don't
YOU know that that foolish warning will
offend the men you intended to intimi-
date, and with one accord they will
curse you with greater fervor AS
was said in this paper in former article
Randall is wearing the livery of Dem
ocracy in which to serve the Republi-
can party, or, in other words, to serve
Eastern monopolies.
C.1.,oo Nave ord Nnfoc
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RIBBONS.
All widths, 24c up.
LACES.

RIBBONS.
All widths, 24c up.
LACES.
In every width, quality and color, Il
up. Fancy cotton laces, 2 inches
wide, lOc. Egyptian laces, 6 In
wide, cream and white, 1Sc
FRILLING.
Fancy, white and cream, sc up.
LADIES COLLARS AND CUFFS
1Oc up. Fancy sets, collars and
cuffs to match, soc.
LADIES' HOSE, 1Oc.
Striped, full, regular made and fash
Toned, 23c; Oner qualities at equal
ly low prices. Lisle thread, in all
colors and sizes, Csc up.
CHILDREN'S HOSE, SC UP.
Extra strong and ribbed for boys,
1Oc and II 1-2c. Superfine rib
bed, black and solid colors, CSC.
LADIES' GAUZE VESTS, CSC.
Short and long. sleeves, Balbriggan,
35c, three for s1.0O.
CHILDREN'S GAUZE VESTS,
l9c up.
JERSEYS.
All wool, Csc; black cotton, fast col
ors, silk embroidered, sl.25.
LADIES EMBROIDERED ROBES
$3.50. Better quality, $3.50 and
$500.
VELVETEENS, So AND 65c.
All silk trimming velvet, plain and
fancy colors, $1.45.
SILKS.
A beautiful gros grain silk in black,
worth S1.25 for s1.OO. Fancy
colored gros grains, new colors and
reliable quality, 95c.
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DRESS GOODS.
In all colors, from &c up. Reliable
qualities, at Csc.
BLACK CASHMERES.
In the incest finish and best dyes,
at IS and S5c. Colors in summer
shades, 81 and 75c.
BED SPREADS.
In white and fancy colors, 75c.
TABLELINENS.
Unbleach, Csc, Csc, soc. Bleached,
soc, extra fine bleached, 75c. Nap
kins in cream and white, S1.OO doz.
up.
SEERSUCKERS.
Plain and crinkled, in all colors, 75c
up.
CRASH, SC UP.
SAl i EERS.
In new summer shades, neat pat
terms, 10c.
PRINTS AND CALICJS, 4c UP.
LAWNS, sc UP.
FLANNELS.
Summer weight, white and colored,
25c up.
MUSLINS.
Bleached and unbleached, sc up.
TABLE OIL CLOTH.
i6 inches wide, In white, marble and
fancy colors, 35c yard.
LADIES' HAND SATCHELS.
Ike Black and Tan, soc each; better
and larger, S1.25.
Isle GLOVES.
Jolored, 12c up.
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Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania,
threatens the South with overwhelming
calanity, if they continue to oppose
high tara duties, that brings to Ran
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One lot black gros-
grain silks, price now
81 1-2c; this silk is
worth $1.OO per yd.
One lot black gros-
grain silk, price now
90 1-2c, red and old
gold selvage; this silk
is worth 1925.
One lot black rha-
danes, very fine quail
it'll white selva G e,
worth at this sale
$1.1S. We will match
it with any rhadames
from any market at
$3.50.
One lot very hand
some black grosgrain
silk, 90 in. wide, a big
drive, price now $1.18;
this silk sells any,
where at $3.50.
One lot ass o rted
spring shades gros-|
grain silks at the uni
form price Of ~ 1-2c.
Make no mistake and
let this bargain go byI
default, you will rel
gret it if you do. |
OnelOtSummerdr dress |
goods, from IL 1-2c toll
Is and zoe per yard.
White goods, Sc, 1Oc, |
IL 1-2c, 15c, 18c per
d--bargains.
One lot plaid dress
ginghams, 1Oc per yd.
One lot good lawns,
&c, Sc, SC, 7c, 1Oc per
yard; prices only for
this month.
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Low PRICES CONTINUED

Full comb pins, only Sc per paper, or
for SC.
Hair pins, only 1c per paper.
Ladies' linen collars, &c each.
One lot fine neat edge embroidery.
at 1c per yard.
Skirt braids, only sc roll.
1000 lead pencils, doz. for 1Oc.
Ladies' cotton gloves, 1Oc, 129c, 15c.
zoe per pair.
One lot ladies' fine, all-silk mitts, at
25c per pair.
One case, or 1000 yards, indigo blue
prints, at &c.
One case, or 1000 yards, standard
dress prints, at 4Ic.
No time to quote any more prices.
but we ask you to come in, look our
stock over, and get prices on goods
that are not quoted in this column.
We assure you such prices as above
are an index to our entire stock. We
mean just what we say, and do as we
advertise. Be wise, come now. and
buy goods while you can. These prices
for two weeks only, OF during the
month of May.
Sterl &Zahner |
Leaders of T.ouy pr;oos
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Your Attention!

Read what Sterl &
Zahner have to say
about low prices. We
are bound to sell goods
at such prices as will
induce everybody to
come to Sterl & Zah-
ner's Mammoth Two
Floor Dry G. 90 d S,
Clothing, Boo t a n d
Shoe House.
Our +" Exception a l
May Sale" will have
additional attractions
for theremaining days
of this month. In this
column you WILL nnd
enumerated a few ar
ticles w h CHI you
should make it a point
to see without fail.
Thew are much below
regular value, and be-
sides, we want to see
how many persons
will improve this only
opportunity % 6 e t
these goods at less
than what they are
worth. Rene m b e r,
the prices quoted in
this column are only
for this month, no
longer. Should your
neighbor buy the S e
goods this month at a
certain price, don't ex-
pect nor ask to buy
same goods in June for
same prices.
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Cheap Fuel and Light.

A series of tests has recently been
made by DIR. Fischer, the well-known
German chemist, showing that in ordi-
nary domestic stoves in use not more
than twenty per cent. of fuel consumed
is really utilized for warming the rooms,
whereas with stoves burning gas eighty
per cent. and more of the possible effect
Is obtained. In a sugar mandatory
at Elsdorf, it is stated. no steam engines
have been used for several years. Gas
is made at a cost of about twenty cents
per 1000 cubic feet, and is used for
lighting and driving gas engines. At
the Essen works, water gas is made at
a cost of eight to sixteen cents per 1000
feet, and serves both for fire and light
:ng.-Science.
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LAUGHING PLANT
Peculiar Effects OF the Powder Made from
an Arabian Bean.

an Arabian Bean.
The well-known, and once too pOpu-
lar, intoxicant called laughing gas, -
is the prOtoxide of nitrogen, an artifi-
cial product of the chemist. We do not
suppose that the same compound grows
in an Arabian bean, but this vegetable
seems to have the same merry virtue.
Nature is humorous, as well as ecOnomi-
cal, and likes to surprise science by
duplicating its exploits.
The laughing plant is not a flower
that laughs. but one that creates
laughter, if the printed stories of
travellers are to be believed. 1t grows
in Arabia. and is called the laughing
plant because its seeds produce effects
like those produced by laughing gaa-
The flowers of this wonderful plant are
of bright yellow. and the seed pods
are soft and woolly, while the seeds re-
semble black beans. and only two or
three grow in pod. The natives dry
and pulverize them, and the powder,
if taken in small doses, makes the So
berest person behave like a circus
clown or mailman; for he will dance,
sing and laugh, and cut the most fam
tastic capers, and be in an uproariously
ridiculous condition for about an hour.
When the excitement ceases the ex-
hansted exhibitor OF these antics falls
asleep, and when he awakes he has not
the slightest remembrance of bis do
TicE's Floral Magazine.
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\ WARNING TO sAsHFUL MEN.

He sat beside her near the stove,
A prey 10 b2shfulness:
To her he spoke no words OF love,
Nor sought her hand to press.
No maiden ever had been wooed
By him; the fact was plain.
For silently he sat and cheWed
The knob upon his cane.
Sometimes he at the ceiling gaZed.
Sometimes his glance would stray
To her, but when her eyes she raised,
He looked another way.
And thus they silent sat till she
Said: John, ought TO state
That pa and rna are out to tea
And won't return till late.
Snow while they're absent do not tease,
But pray remember this:
Ny hand YOU must not try to squeeze,
Nor steal from me kiss
A. once the knob that graced MS cane
John from his mouth withdrew.
And said: Il won't: don't think. Miss Jan 2,
That I'd do that TO you
A deeper silence then cnsued
Than had prevailed before:
John vigorously his canes knob cheWed,
a frOwn James visage wore.
And thus they sat till half-past ten,
And when John rose to 20.
And asked If he might call again.
Jane CURLY answered: No
boston Courier.
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How Hawks and Owls Eat.

Captain Tom Langston. who is one
of Atlanta's most enthusiastic sports
men, says: ibid You ever notice a hawk
or an owl preparing to make meal on
a bird? The difference in th>. meth
DDS is very great. A hawk will first
pick all the feathers off the bird and
then tear it to pieces rs the bird is de-
voured. He goes at it in very syste-
matte and dainty manner. Not so with
an owl. After killing the bird the owl
swallows it whole, feathers and all.
He then sits quietly, and in an hour or
so You will see the owl move his neck
about rs if trying to untangle knot in
it. Then he will sort of hump up his
back. lower his head ard the next mo-
ment a ball of feathers will roll out of
his mouth. The operation shows that
the owl divests the bird of its feathers
after swallowing it. while the hawk
plucks out every feather and quill before
ne takes bite ATLANTA Constitution.
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Simply this: that a week ago-the very
night, in fact, that Major Brabazon stayed
at the Wheatsheaf-the London mail coach
was stopped on the borders of Hangman's
Heath by Single highwayInan, and the
passengers robbed and the guard shot dead.
Highway robberies perpetrated by gentle
men of the road were at that period of such
everyday occurrence that no one took much
notice Of this particular robbery, and two
days afterwarG it was as good as forgotten
by the Plumperton folk. But when, on the
sworn information of Timothy Trap. a
London bagman, one of the passengers
robbed, warrant was granted for the ap-
prehension of Major Brabazon, in conse-
quence of which the Major had that very
mo rning been arrested just as he was leav-
ing his home 70 go and pay morning visit
to his lady-love the fair Widow Thomson:
the bad news naturally fell like thunder
bolt on the town, and set every body wild
with excitement, as well il might. for there
was not a soul in the place, and for miles
round as well, who did not know and like
the Major and his white-faced mare. The
Major turn highwayman aad rob the mail,
just as he was going to be married, too
Why, the idea was perfectly ridiculous.
At the inquiry before the Justices, Jacob
Shrub, who was called on the prisoners be-
half, proved that he assisted the Major,
who was very far gone in liquor, to bed; in
deed, he found him on entering the sitting
room he and another gentleman had shared,
fast asleep, with his head in an empty
punch-bowl and a half-squeeSed lemon be-
tween his teeth. He never saw him again
until the next morning, when he break
tasted, paid his reckoning and rode off as
any other gentleman might. AS for the
Major leaving the house in the dead of night
and getting in again without some of the in
mates knowing of it, why it would be simply
impossible-at least in his humble opinion
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What will the thrifty housekeeper d

What will the thrifty housekeeper do
when broom-corn gives out? There are
said to be signs of its failure in localities
where it was once leading crop. Thus
it is noted as curious fact that Massa-
chusetts man recently sent to Illinois for
one hundred tons of broom-corn for use
in the once famous broom corn-growing
Hadley meadows.-N. T. Examiner.
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eW-Au communications ToV INA pEpSs
eaiould be ACCOMPANIED by the ZANE Of tE
Thor; not necessarily for publication, cu
rs sn evidence IF good faith CT the part o.
The writer. Write only on one SIDE OF tn
paper. Be particularly careful in givln-
haInes end Gates to have tie iaft2rg and Dc
xrsDS Oiain nd diEI1act
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Half n mint of rich milk half ,

Half a pint of rich milk, half a cup
of Bakers chocolate softened on the
fire. Let the milk come to boil, then
stir in the chocolate very hard, then
add half pint best white sugar and two
tablespoonful of molasses. Boil until
very thick, taking care not to burn it.
Pour on buttered tins. and when nearly
cold cut into squares.-Good House
Eeeri,10